After two seasons on Cinemax,
Warrior the historical martial arts crime drama whose most immediate claim to fame is that its concept was originally developed by Bruce Lee is coming back. Well, sort of: Rather than return to the premium cable network that served as its home for its first two years,
Warrior will now be transitioning over to Cinemax’s streaming cousin, HBO Max.
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Set in 1870s San Francisco, the series stars Andrew Koji as Ah Sahm, a Chinese immigrant seeking his missing sister amid the infamous Tong Wars waged between Chinese gangs in the city during the era. Olivia Cheng, Jason Tobin, Dianne Doan, and a well-packed crew of co-stars all round out the show’s cast, sketching a version of 19th century California just waiting to explode due to tensions political, racial, social, and more.
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Ophelia Lovibond (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Vanity Fair) , Jake Johnson (Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for IMDb)
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As announced today in a press release, HBO Max has given a series order to
Minx, a comedy series created by Ellen Rapoport and produced by Lionsgate and Paul Feig’s Feigco Entertainment. The series is about an “earnest young feminist” in ‘70s Los Angeles who teams up with a “low-rent publisher” to create the first porn magazine targeted toward women, with Ophelia Lovibond and Jake Johnson set to star because who says “L.A. guy in the ‘70s publishing an erotic magazine for women” better than Nick Miller? (Absolutely nobody.)
Godzilla back in 2014.
Godzilla Vs. Kong will land on the streaming service right at the end of the month, on March 31, and will stick around for the now-standard single month.
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But if you’re not in the mood to wait, HBO Max has still got you covered, most prominently with the release of
on March 18. After all, nothing burns away the hours like a four-hour superhero movie, mixed with the satisfying knowledge that a hundred thousand human-hours of pent-up nerd anger have finally found their proper lightning rod. Plus: Jesus Joker!
And if that all sounds too fantastical, HBO Max’s original documentary offerings have got your back, including
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For HBO Max subscribers, February might offer more than pricey chocolates and teddy bears. (We wouldn’t turn those down, though. It’s been a shitty year.) Next month will spark the 2021 wave of Warner Bros. film premieres, starting with
Judas And The Black Messiah. Starring LaKeith Stanfield, Daniel Kaluuya, and Jesse Plemmons, the historical drama follows Bill O’ Neal, who infiltrates the Black Panthers on behalf of the FBI. Kaluuya transforms as revolutionary Fred Hampton in a role that is generating early buzz and controversy in equal measure. As for a premiere on the entirely opposite end of the Serious Spectrum,